How triathlon helped Mark Turnipseed get sober and come out

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Mark A. Turnipseed was an addict who was living a lie: he was married to a woman but knew deep down he was gay, using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of not being able to be his true self. He stumbled into triathlon, and the process of training for his first IRONMAN allowed Mark to commit to getting sober once and for all, and for finally coming out as a gay man. He's now proudly living the life he knew he was born to live.

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0:00.0	Well, and TK, we've made it. And you know how we've made it? How? We have Athletic Greens as a podcast
0:05.8	sponsor. Oh, yeah. Unless you have Athletic Greens as a podcast sponsor, just don't even show up.
0:12.1	Don't even buy a microphone. I'm saying that jokingly. But fun story about athletic greens.
0:17.8	They have become a partner of triathlon taren and motive and everything
0:22.3	that we do. And I've actually been trying to be able to use athletic greens for about 18 months.
0:29.4	And I wanted to first start using athletic greens about 18 months ago when my stomach wasn't as
0:35.3	healthy as it is right now. And it being essentially a substitute for
0:40.5	your multivitamin, but also having things like prebiotic fiber in it, it's really, really good
0:45.7	for your stomach. It's basically like they call it your all in one nutritional insurance. It's
0:50.3	a very good substitute for multivitamins. But what I'd always experienced was, well, multivitamins
0:57.5	don't do a whole lot. A lot of them have bad ingredients and fillers. A lot of them, yeah, and you just end up
1:03.7	like peeing yellow and everything goes away and you don't notice anything different. But when I tried
1:07.9	athletic greens the first time when my stomach wasn't as strong. Oh, yeah, your GI tract was in a mess. Oh, it was just in a mess. But when I tried Athletic Greens the first time when my stomach wasn't as strong,
1:11.3	yeah, your GI tract wasn't a mess. Oh, it was just in a mess. But this was a good thing because it
1:16.1	was telling me that Athletic Greens actually was potent enough to do something. So fast forward 18
1:22.7	months later and they said, hey, do you want to try it again? And sure enough, with my stomach being a lot
1:28.7	stronger, it is now able to tolerate it. So now we can partner with them as a supporter of the podcast.
1:35.4	All of this is to tell you, it's legit. Yes. It's not just peeing it out. I'm using it every day.
1:40.7	It's my replacement for my base level of just multivitamins to make sure that you get everything.
1:47.0	Well, and triathletes really need to make sure that they are getting all the proper nutrients
1:51.4	because you're burning up so much when you exercise as much as you all do, you have to replace
1:56.4	that.
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